Joey Hess scrisse: > I'd like to add btrfs support to d-i. A prerequisite is that parted at > least be able to identify btrfs filesystems. > Luca's patch here should be sufficient for that: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-February/002585.html > Luca, what is the status of full support?
I still maintain that patch updated and rebased against latest master (and can attach here if needed). Creation can be added too without much effort, for the simplest case (single-device, no raid, no multi-vol, etc.), and I think this is what is initially needed for your self-living d-i. I've not hacked myself through it yet, but can look at it after this three-week exams session. By the way, this discussion comes in a wider scenario, because soon much more apps would benefit from some sort of btrfs-awereness, and the current user-space situation is far from optimal. Plus, actual btrfs-related codebase is released under GPLv2-only, when much of our user-space is now gone to GPLv3, libparted too (so no easy code reuse). I'm thinking of a more integrated goal (which should include easy reuse, eg. to use in grub too) but I still have to trace a better image. A lib from scratch? Asking oracle and rh for relicensing? Whatelse? Comments/ideas appreciated. Ciao, Luca -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Luca Bruno (kaeso) : :' : The Universal O.S. | lucab (AT) debian.org `. `'` | GPG Key ID: 3BFB9FB3 `- http://www.debian.org | Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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